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low rainfall . This will increase the existing vegetated <br /> wetlands by two acres but reduce the standing water wetlands by <br /> 1 . 5 acres . The vegetated wetlands will provide detritus input <br /> with the runoff , filter any contaminants from runoff and <br /> provide a shallow water vegetated wetland in the winter when <br /> wildlife use is at its highest. <br /> 2 . The existing pond would be reduced from 1 . 5 to 0 . 5 acres and <br /> the roadside ditch modified to provide biofiltering and improve <br /> water quality to the slough. This eliminates a portion of the <br /> summer water quality problem but still retains a pond that is <br /> deeper than the drainage system. Any time a sump is created <br /> there is a possibility for water quality problems . Drainage <br /> from the pond to the tidegate would be modified to filter the <br /> water before it enters the slough but this will not help the <br /> pond when there is no water input . As the system exists there <br /> is also a change of contaminant loading of the pond if there is <br /> a spill of chemicals during a period when the runoff is minimal <br /> and the tides are high for long durations . Contaminants could <br /> get trapped in the pond system and remain there. If there was a <br /> freshwater source of water to purge of blend with the runoff I <br /> would not be so negative toward the pond , but the existing <br /> system and the proposal to reduce the size of the system are <br /> designed to create problems . <br /> Alternative one of the detention system and the intertidal area <br /> will increase the biological value of the property to wildlife <br /> species that are restricted in their use to marshes and <br /> estuaries with little impact to other wildlife . The only real <br /> impact will be a loss of 22 acres of pasture for seasonal duck <br /> _/ <br />